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Annie Tighe – A Second Transplant Saves Annie

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Annie Tighe

This is the story of my beautiful granddaughter Annie, who celebrated her 13th birthday this April 2014.  It’s also the story of Annie’s big sister Katherine, as well as of her mother Melissa, and her father, Tom (my son). 

When my husband and I picked Annie up from pre-school in December of 2005, we noticed bruises on her arms and legs. Melissa looked over her body closely that evening and counted 14 bruises! She immediately took Annie to her pediatrician, who took one look at her and said, “Take her to The City of Hope.”

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Aristoteles Giagounidis MD

Giagounidis, Aristoteles
Head of the Department of Oncology, Haematology, and Palliative Care
Marien Hospital, Düsseldorf, Germany

Aristoteles Giagounidis is Head of the Department of Oncology, Haematology, and Palliative Care at Marien Hospital in Düsseldorf, Germany. After earning his medical degree in 1992 from Eberhard-Karls-University in Tübingen, Germany, Dr Giagounidis was house officer at the Withybush General Hospital in Haverfordwest, Wales, and at the William Harvey Hospital in Ashford, Kent, UK. He then served as resident physician at the Haematology/Oncology Department of Heinrich-Heine- University in Düsseldorf, where he became board certified in 1999.